Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

The little-known Civil War Battle of Greenleaf Prairie took place on June 16, 1863, near present-day Braggs and extended to ...

It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American waters. The power brokers in Washington panicked. Everyone except Navy Secretary ...

Matewan, West Virginia. May 19, 1920. Police Chief Sid Hatfield sits in the town square. He's declined bribes and payoffs to help protect the coal miners of Matewan but the Baldwin Felts detective ...

Crew on site in January collecting images for National Endowment for the Humanities project creating historic graffiti ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...